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Weather: Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Saturday Night: Mostly clear. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Wickline Park, 315 South 7th Street, featuring prepared food, fruit, vegetables , handmade products and local arts from more than 30 local merchants. The market is hosted by Flagler Strong, a non-profit.
Democratic Women’s Club of Flagler County meeting at 9:30 a.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every third Saturday RAI hosts Live Standup Comedy with comics from all over Central Florida.
Notably: The other day I had occasion to send birthday wishes to a friend. I couldn’t send a Hallmark card. Hallmark cards make me cringe, and of course I wanted to make her cringe, too, but the cringe factor is too predictable with Hallmark cards. Then I found a set of slogans that were making their way around China for China’s 50th birthday celebration in 1999. They were not intended as parody, but of course come off as nothing but, which makes them too preciously charming not to share here, with apologies to my friend for breaking the seal of what ought to be private wishes with these billion-footed slogans (some of which I did no include in my original missive):
• Warmly hail the great successes in China’s reform and opening up and socialist modernization drive!
• Strive to build China into a prosperous, powerful, democratic and culturally advanced socialist country!
• Hold high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory and put forward the cause of building socialism with Chinese characteristics into the 21st century!
• Emancipate the mind, seek truth from facts and firmly promote reform and opening up!
• Adhere to the basic economic system with public ownership dominant and diverse forms of ownership developing side by side, and “to each according to his work” as the main distribution form and with other forms as well!
• Rely on the working class wholeheartedly!
• Respect knowledge, value talented people, and carry out the strategy of invigorating the nation through science and education!
• Implement family planning, protect natural resources and the environment, and carry out the strategy of sustainable development!
• Adhere to the goal of serving the people and socialism, to the policy of letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend, and promote socialist science, literature and art!
• Develop public health and physical culture and improve people’s physique!
• Unite as one, fear no difficulties, struggle hard, be persistent, dare to win!
• Long live the great Marxism, Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory!
—P.T.
Now this: This’ll make our local Republicans’ heads spin a little:
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July 2025
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
County Attorney Candidate Interviews
Palm Coast Democratic Club Recap Meeting
Town of Marineland Commission Meeting
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday Blue Forum
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As a form of racial discrimination, xenophobia has not distinguished between immigrants who have entered with authorization and those who have not, or between immigrants and US citizens. Instead, it has ensnared entire populations, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, and the strain and violence of xenophobia has had generational consequences.14 Take, for example, the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, initially passed as a temporary measure to bar Chinese laborers; it made it harder for all Chinese, including American citizens of Chinese descent, to enter and reenter the country for generations, until the law was repealed in 1943. Or consider the mass deportation of Mexicans during the Great Depression. Initially designed to target those in the country without authorization, the xenophobic campaign ultimately involved the removal of legal residents and US-born Mexican American citizens.
–From Erika Lee, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States (2019)..
Skibum says
From a law enforcement perspective, it is unfathomable to me that any agency in the U.S. would allow their officers to make mass arrests while riding around in unmarked vehicles, officers wearing military type clothing with no clearly identifiable agency patches, and individual officers with masks over their faces! In my long career, I never once saw such behavior, nor would I have imagined that agency heads in local, state or federal law enforcement agencies would have condoned it.
You can go down to Mexico or other very dangerous, 3rd world countries where drug cartels actively hunt honest cops and you will find it common for their officers to hide their identities because they don’t want the bad guys to know who they are so they can easily be targeted for assassination. That is definitely NOT an issue here in the U.S. The only reason they would be covering their faces and doing other incomprehensible things to hide their identities is to avoid accountability, and there is no damn reason why that should ever be tolerated or seen as normal! I condemn it, and hope that at the end of this unethical, unconstitutional convicted felon’s presidency, America will wake up and put competent, trustworthy leaders in place once again, and NEVER ever allow federal law enforcement officers to be some kind of quasi secret police to run ram shod over the country and individuals’ rights like happens in those dictatorial places around the globe where citizens are scared to death whenever the secret police show up.
Sherry says
Yet MORE corruption from trump. . . this from Politico:
A Florida state judge was lobbying for a seat on the federal bench. After he sided with the president in a defamation case, Donald Trump gave him one.
Ed Artau, now a nominee to be a district court judge in Florida, met with staff in the office of Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott to angle for the nomination less than two weeks after Trump’s election last fall, according to a new Senate disclosure obtained by POLITICO. In the midst of his interviews, Artau was part of a panel of judges that ruled in Trump’s favor in the president’s case against members of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
About two weeks after the court published his opinion — which called for the overturning of a landmark Supreme Court case that made it harder for public officials to sue journalists — he interviewed with the White House Counsel’s Office. In May, Trump announced his nomination to the federal judiciary.
Critics raised concerns about Artau’s impartiality at the time of the announcement, in light of his ruling in the Pulitzer case. But the overlapping timeline of that decision with his meetings with Senate staff and the White House Counsel’s Office has not previously been reported.